Dumb brake maintenance questions

[Richard Hoffman]

When I had to deal with frozen/rusted calipers on my 100LS, I removed the
rotor and caliper together and hammered the living daylights out of the
caliper to the point where the pads finally broke their grip and overcame
the rusty lip.

In less extreme situations, I go for the big flat-head screwdriver and its
usually good enough to pry them apart.
Good luck
Richard
90 CQ 221k (recent accident, undergoing surgery)
70 100LS 46k (should be ready for Audi Club meet Saturday, fingers are
crossed!)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Huw Powell" <audi at humanspeakers.com>
To: <rocketscienceracing at attbi.com>
Cc: <quattro at audifans.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2003 10:54 PM
Subject: Re: Dumb brake maintenance questions


>
> > 1. How do you get the caliper off when there is that ridge of rusty
rotor
> > material around the edge?
>
> usually you can pry on a brake pad or such to compress the piston a bit
> and create more clearance.
>
> or try removing some of the rust ridge by whacking it with whatever
> innocent tool is lying at hand.
>
> --
> Huw Powell
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